EDC 430 F09 CL05 - What Representations are Useful for Student Understanding

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Monday, October 12, 2009
Any piece of work you don't have pride in, you need to keep working on. - Chris Sullivan quoted in Fried, 1991

Agenda for Class 05: How Do We Plan Activities to Help Students Understand?

  • Announcements
    • Grading, feedback, etc.
  • Activities
    • Sharing: Practicum visits, Current Ideas for Unit Plans and Passionate Teaching
      • Where are we?
    • Adopt A GSEs
      • Fame and Fortune
        • From my inbox:
          • Hi Jay:

            Someone said that "imitation is the greatest form of flattery." Well, I
            would like to flatter you by asking permission to use your Adopt a GSE
            Challenge here in Tennessee. I have watched your wiki grow and I'm
            impressed.

            We've been building http://www.stemresources.com/ since June and one of our
            pressing needs is to populate the Learning Expectations with exemplary
            materials. Your approach is a stroke of genius. With you permission, I'll
            begin a similar campaign here. Perhaps we can even share since I'd suspect
            that there are few Expectations that both TN and NECAP don't share in
            common.

            Keep up the good work.
            Richard
      • Concept maps, Activities and Representations
    • Informal Presentations
      • Unit Plan Ideas
        • What are the key concepts?
        • Possible hook and driving questions.

This Week's Assignments

  • Due Friday, October 8:
    • Observation/Reflection #2.
  • Due Monday, October 19
    • Readings
    • Assignments
      • Unit Plan Draft:
        • Post a title,
        • an overview,
        • a rationale for your unit plan,
        • a concept map of the unit's topics on URITK.